TY  - JOUR
T1  - Hybrid Testing Model for Cloud API Testing as a Service
AU - Jeba Gazelle, R. AU - Maluk Mohamed, M.A. 
JO  - International Journal of System Signal Control and Engineering Application
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
SP  - 30
EP  - 34
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1997-5422
DO  - ijssceapp.2019.30.34
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijssceapp.2019.30.34
KW  - Application programming interfaces
KW  -quality assurance
KW  -testing as a service
KW  -software
AB  - Cloud computing provide infrastructures,
development and deploying platforms and provides many
application services over internet. As multiple systems,
devices and applications interoperate in the today’s cloud
world, APIs play an important role providing the required
functionalities by communicating with different sub
systems without a compromise in the quality of delivery.
An important area on this front is the testing of
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which are
direct links between the client code and the infrastructure
it runs upon. In this study, a hybrid model for testing
cloud platforms and infrastructures is suggested. The
model is hybrid in the essence that it provides two
options: one is that it leverages the API test cases either
automated or manual test scripts which can be reused for
testing various APIs and hence provides an option of
testing as a service. Secondly, the model includes the
various test environments that would be required to run
the API testing, the plugins and adapters that would be
required to execute the test cases such that it leverages the
concept of infrastructure as a service for API testing, This
option helps the development and cloud quality assurance
engineers not to spend effort on setting up the required
test environments but can use them as a service.
ER  -